Ужасы и Мистика
Различные книги в жанре Ужасы и МистикаThe Velvet Glove
Society has grown dependent on super-intelligent robots, but are they being given the respect they deserve?
Arm of the Law
An experiment in robotic law enforcement goes awry in this thought-provoking read from the golden age of science fiction.
The Rats in the Walls
In a tale “too horrible for the tender sensibilities of a delicately nurtured publick,” a man uncovers his family’s dark, cannibalistic past.
The Stainless Steel Rat and The Misplaced Battleship
It's more than a little careless to lose a battleship, even in interstellar space. Enter Slippery Jim diGriz, better known as the Stainless Steel Rat, the fastest talking con-man in the galaxy. Jim will need to go undercover to find the missing battleship and make sure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. A fast paced comical science fiction romp!
Thirteen at Table
“How can I ever thank you?” he said to me then. “We have been thirteen at table for thirty years and I never dared to insult them because I had wronged them all, and now you have done it and I know they will never dine here again.”
The Three Sailors’ Gambit
They lost three pawns almost straight off, then a knight, and shortly after a bishop; they were playing in fact the famous Three Sailors’ Gambit.
The Relenting of Sarnidac
And the Book of the Knowledge of the gods tells further how the day on which Pompeides found the gods shall be kept for ever as a fast until the evening and called the Fast of the Departing, but in the evening shall a feast be held which is named the Feast of the Relenting, for on that evening Sarnidac pitied the whole world and tarried.
The Long Porter’s Tale
There are things that are known only to the long porter of Tong Tong Tarrup as he sits and mumbles memories to himself in the little bastion gateway.
The City on Mallington Moor
There never was such a city, not even in books. Travellers talked sometimes of Venice seen from the sea, there might be such a place or there might not, but, whether or no, it was nothing to the city on Mallington Moor.
How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art upon the Gnoles
Despite the advertisements of rival firms, it is probable that every tradesman knows that nobody in business at the present time has a position equal to that of Mr. Nuth.